EW Talks to Gary Ross: “It was absolutely the right decision.”
Entertainment Weekly caught up with director Gary Ross to talk about his new children’s book Bartholomew Biddle and the Very Big Wind and asked about his decision to leave the Hunger Games franchise.
”I didn’t feel that I would have the time for the way that I work to do the movie justice,” he says. “I wear two hats. I don’t wear one hat. When you write and you direct that’s a linear process, it’s not a simultaneous process. I would’ve had to have written a script and prepped the whole movie in four months and on the first movie that’s a process that took me eight months. And I thought [Catching Fire] was a more difficult adaptation, not an easier one. I didn’t really feel I had the time I needed to live up to my own standards. And I haven’t had a moment’s regret. It was absolutely the right decision and I’m thrilled about new challenges.”
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Well… I’m glad Gary Ross decided that he’d rather not do the movie at all than do a crappy job on it. I guess now we just gotta watch Francis Lawrence and the Catching Fire crew do their stuff!
I am upset that Gary did not return for Catching Fire. However, there was much criticism on the shaky camera work so on the bright side we can know that Francis Lawrence will not have that mistake. Let’s just keep out fingers crossed that Francis will go above and beyond our expectations.
To me the biggest mistake by Gary Ross was not producing a director’s cut, cut scenes & bloopers.
The fans would have LOVED this!
@Inigo. Same here! I would have loved to see the cut scenes they did with Gale!
I wish Gary Ross could have stayed with all 4 movies, he did a perfect job in the hunger games but i give him alot of credit for saying no and doing what was right instead of doing a not so good job. he knew and im glad he had respect enough for the book to know!